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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Good. How are you guys doing good? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's not his best obviously, love to have
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  Speaker 1: some of those kicks back. I think the cool part, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we love him here, we love what he's done. We
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  Speaker 1: have say, he's saved us a million times over the years,
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  Speaker 1: and we get an opportunity the bye. We came in
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  Speaker 1: a perfect time for him, for me, for everybody, all
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  Speaker 1: our players and coaches, to kind of reset, get back
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  Speaker 1: to what you do. Cam strikes the ball as good
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  Speaker 1: as anybody in the league, and so to get back
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  Speaker 1: to that. He was able to go home to his
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  Speaker 1: hometown and in Oklahoma City and and kick on his
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  Speaker 1: old goal post, and you know, he was able to
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  Speaker 1: kind of reach back and kind of do the things
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  Speaker 1: he does. And we've had some great conversations. It's been
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  Speaker 1: really really good. This is part of his process as
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  Speaker 1: a young kicker, a young specialist. Uh. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: hate to see it happen kind of this little rough
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  Speaker 1: patch a little bit, uh, but this is part of it.
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  Speaker 1: I told him, you're gonna have uh, you know, three
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  Speaker 1: or four of these probably over your course of your
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  Speaker 1: fifteen year career. So this is how we got to
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  Speaker 1: manage it. This is how we got to work through it,
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  Speaker 1: and and we're gonna work through with him, and so
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  Speaker 1: it's a uh it's a cool time for him to
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  Speaker 1: kind of work through it with the bye week, get
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  Speaker 1: extra time to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm excited. I'm fired up to see him, to
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  Speaker 1: see him kick on Sunday. It's gonna be really cool
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  Speaker 1: to kind of see where he's come. And like I said,
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  Speaker 1: we love him to death.
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  Speaker 3: To make sure like check on him, to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that it doesn't think shape that he's.
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  Speaker 1: Very confident and we're confident in him, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: he should. He's super talented, and then he has the
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  Speaker 1: right mindset, the work ethic, he does all the right things,
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  Speaker 1: uh to have that confidence. And so we love it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's that's what makes him a great kicker.
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  Speaker 1: And nothing's nothing wavered with him or with us. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's something that you know, the organization starting from the top, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to to to Liam and and down to me.
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  Speaker 1: We love them to death, nothing but confidence. We've all
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  Speaker 1: had plays this year we love to have back and
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  Speaker 1: and I've had stuff that I'd love to have back.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, even in within that game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: against the Rams, there's things I'd love to have back,
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  Speaker 1: and when you know some of our players will save me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Monterek makes an open field tackle on something
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't put the guys in the best position,
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  Speaker 1: but they've saved me, just like Cam. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: got Cam's back the same way.
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  Speaker 4: The league got a little bit of a history of
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  Speaker 4: guys pulling trig or too early on getting rid of
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  Speaker 4: a kicker who goes into a little bit of a slum,
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  Speaker 4: and then you've always and they go to another team
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  Speaker 4: and all of a sudden they rediscover things. So is
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  Speaker 4: that maybe one of the things in mind with haveing
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  Speaker 4: patience with Cam?
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  Speaker 1: That's that's football. I think that's all of our players.
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  Speaker 1: You love them, you work with them, and sometimes you're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna have your best plays out there, your best kicks.
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  Speaker 1: But what do we do. We coach them up, we
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  Speaker 1: work with them, we help them, we love them up
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  Speaker 1: and get him better at you know, at any whatever
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  Speaker 1: position that is that's not gonna happen here. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's a guy that's that puts it, takes as much
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  Speaker 1: accountability on himself as anybody, and so that the work
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  Speaker 1: ethic he has, He's gonna be great. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to watch him on Sunday. He's gonna he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna have a spectacular game. He's gonna help us win
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  Speaker 1: a ton of games this year. He's a big part
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  Speaker 1: of we're gonna do for the next you know, a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of years. Uh, you know here in Jacksonville, Dude,
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask.
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  Speaker 5: On the covers teams.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously you know you lost the ingramsamas existence were made.
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  Speaker 5: I guess a couple of the guys were in there.
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  Speaker 4: Rayon lane, Uh, he's made some big plays on pumps
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  Speaker 4: and everything.
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  Speaker 6: What do you like about that kid?
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  Speaker 1: Ray has been unbelievable. He's he's had an exceptional year.
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  Speaker 1: His ability to to cover kicks, not only on the
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  Speaker 1: punt and kickoff group is spectacular, whether he's facing a
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  Speaker 1: double team and advice, his contact balance, his speed, his strength,
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  Speaker 1: his toughness, and I think the probably the best thing
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  Speaker 1: about him his his He's an animal on Sundays that
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  Speaker 1: you know, the guy we see in the meeting rooms,
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  Speaker 1: the guy we see out here, you know, in the
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  Speaker 1: halls and on practice field is not the same guy
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  Speaker 1: that we get out on the game and Uh. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a he's a he plays at a motor, a
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  Speaker 1: relentless effort and speed and and that you don't see
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  Speaker 1: a lot of players play with the knack to get
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  Speaker 1: to the football. It's it's he's having an umble little year.
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  Speaker 1: And he's a special player. He's exactly what we were
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  Speaker 1: hoping he would be UH when we drafted him, and
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  Speaker 1: he maybe even better. He he is an exceptional player
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  Speaker 1: UH in the coverage groups. But I think what really
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  Speaker 1: kind of separates him to UH is his ability in
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  Speaker 1: the return game. He is a key part of some
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  Speaker 1: of those key blocks. Anytime we have a big return,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's Parker or kick return guys, he's a big
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  Speaker 1: part of it. He always has great matchups UH, and
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  Speaker 1: and he wins a lot of them. He wins most
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  Speaker 1: of them. So he's a he's a special player, a
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  Speaker 1: talented player that that works at it with with great effort.
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  Speaker 6: Parker's here as a decision wise.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously you know he had the big return
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  Speaker 1: against San Francisco. Love to have that one against the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: But he's been he's been a great player, whether he's
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  Speaker 1: catching the ball clean, making great decisions back there and
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  Speaker 1: then he's a he's a dynamic returner that you know,
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  Speaker 1: opposing teams have to be aware of. But uh so
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  Speaker 1: he's been spectacular and the guy's blocking for him that
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  Speaker 1: you know, I want to give a lot of credit
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  Speaker 1: to those guys. We have a bunch of uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: young players that have played unbelievable. You know, we have
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  Speaker 1: a ton of rookies and young players that have stepped
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  Speaker 1: up that are that are a big part of our
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  Speaker 1: core group, you know, besides you know, ray On, But
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  Speaker 1: we have a bunch of them. You know, Danny's been
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  Speaker 1: a big part of it. Uh bj has been Jack
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  Speaker 1: has been good. So we got a bunch of good
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  Speaker 1: players that have kind of stepped up at that wrong
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  Speaker 1: young role as a core group and really bonded together,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as a great group. What did he mean
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  Speaker 1: to you and your transition to coaching all that time?
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  Speaker 1: So with the uh pee coach, Carroll's a is a
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  Speaker 1: great mentor of mine. I mean, I think he's a
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  Speaker 1: guy that I learned a ton of you know from
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  Speaker 1: as a player. Uh and then obviously working under he
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, he took me under you know,
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  Speaker 1: under his wing that first uh you know year in coaching.
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  Speaker 1: And I was out there for two years, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the stuff my coaching philosophies and and and
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  Speaker 1: techniques that I teach now it comes straight from Coach Carroll. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's a guy that I respect. Looking forward to seeing him, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pregame or post game again. I love him
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  Speaker 1: to death. I think he's an exceptional coach. The motivation,
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  Speaker 1: the teaching, that everything he did as far as philosophy
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  Speaker 1: and details. Uh, it was such a big part of
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  Speaker 1: what we did out there in Seattle.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And and and I incorporate a lot of my coaching
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  Speaker 1: of what I learned from him.
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  Speaker 4: He was one of those coaches he's never who thought
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  Speaker 4: special teams were just equally as important as the other
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  Speaker 4: two units. That you know, there was an intention to
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  Speaker 4: detail in that regard, wasn't wasn't it?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean Coach Carroll sitting sat in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: those meetings. It was very, very important. I believe you'd
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  Speaker 1: probably have to ask him, but I believe I was
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  Speaker 1: probably uh it was out there as one of those
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  Speaker 1: guys of just hey, uh, he's here just to play
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  Speaker 1: special teams. I played a little bit of linebacker, but
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  Speaker 1: I was there to play special teams and and to
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  Speaker 1: be a leader, and it was important to him. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was a big part of what we did.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we had some great, fantastic players, some Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame players on some of those teams on offense
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  Speaker 1: and defense. Uh. But those special teams groups were some
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  Speaker 1: of the top in the NFL over the years. And
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  Speaker 1: you know it's you know, we had some big time
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  Speaker 1: plays and big time games.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, whether it's fake punts in in the in
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  Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game to the Super Bowl kick return
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  Speaker 1: with Percy Harvin. So we had some great plays. There
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  Speaker 1: was just as important to the offense and defense was
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  Speaker 1: that special teams groups.
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  Speaker 6: After him for a second, did he have to change.
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  Speaker 8: Anything play form wise or did you have n't speak anything?
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  Speaker 1: No, that's the best part. I think. I think the
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  Speaker 1: best part is get back to what he did, what
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  Speaker 1: he does strike in the football. Uh. And then the reset,
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  Speaker 1: I think just going with a clean slate, get back
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  Speaker 1: do we do watching film, getting details and then and
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  Speaker 1: then the break. You know, we all needed a break,
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  Speaker 1: and we come back and we'refreshed, we're ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: We're excited about this week. It's gonna be a great matchup.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, we're so I'm excited to watch him. What
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  Speaker 1: do you like about best Slitch did it great? I
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  Speaker 1: thought he did a great job obviously with the rams
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  Speaker 1: and their ability to kind of put the ball on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. Uh, you know, their kicker did a really
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  Speaker 1: good job with that. I thought Diame would handle the
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  Speaker 1: ball really well, especially with the wet game down out
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  Speaker 1: there in London. Uh, And he handled it well. And
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  Speaker 1: I love the way he hit the return was able
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  Speaker 1: to break some tackles. He's a he's a talented returner,
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  Speaker 1: just like the rest of the rest of our guys.
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  Speaker 1: We got two young rookies that have been filled in
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  Speaker 1: nicely and and they're coming along great. They're improving each week.
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  Speaker 1: You know those guys are you know, they're bought into
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  Speaker 1: special teams and and and and they're a part of it.
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  Speaker 1: So we got a good group. Uh, you know, besides Parker,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a good group you know that that all
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  Speaker 1: can return and we'll kind of rotate them through as
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  Speaker 1: we see matchup fit So herb and a radio show.
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  Speaker 4: Where Logan was getting criticized a little bit for not
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  Speaker 4: being is is he kind of the victim of the
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  Speaker 4: standard he set over the last seven or eight years,
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  Speaker 4: because his stats are kind of in the top eight
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  Speaker 4: or ten still. But you know, everybody's used to seeing
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  Speaker 4: Logan right at the top. So, uh, you know, do
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  Speaker 4: you have as with Cam Do you have the same
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  Speaker 4: amount of poutfus with Logan?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely? And I think you're right. I mean, is he
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  Speaker 1: you know, he'd probably love to have a few of
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  Speaker 1: those punts back as well. And that's that's part of
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  Speaker 1: a uh, you know, part of football. I think the
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  Speaker 1: best part is we've got a lot of season left.
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  Speaker 1: H At the end of the day, we're all going
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  Speaker 1: to get better as this season goes on. Logan will
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  Speaker 1: be fine. Logan'll kick great, you know, he'll ben he'll
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  Speaker 1: punt great, and he'll end up being one of the
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  Speaker 1: top punters in the league. We'll keep covering for him.
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  Speaker 1: Our guys are doing a really good job covering. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's not a concern learn about Logan. It's a he's
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  Speaker 1: right where he should be. We'll be We'll be okay.
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  Speaker 9: What's been the challenge?
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  Speaker 1: What's been the challenge?
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  Speaker 10: I guess with the new kickoffs not necessarily new, but
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  Speaker 10: it seems like more teams are deploying different types of kickoffs.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the rams. What's been the challenge this year, not.
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  Speaker 10: Only for the return game but also for your kicking
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  Speaker 10: game to just figure out pretty much.
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  Speaker 6: A sweet spot.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think the sweet spot is the is
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  Speaker 1: probably the best word for it. It's a matter of
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  Speaker 1: if we're on kickoff, is that it's obviously great to
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  Speaker 1: put the ball on the ground. Uh, you're kind of
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  Speaker 1: playing with fire because all of a sudden you leave
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  Speaker 1: one short and and you and you're getting a penalty
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  Speaker 1: before the play even starts. And then also if they
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  Speaker 1: catch it clean right off the bat and it's a
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  Speaker 1: short kick, that's also a problem. So there's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a mixed bag of do you do some missile kicks?
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  Speaker 1: Do you just you know, do the old drive balls
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  Speaker 1: butt to the you know, inside the five is ideal?
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  Speaker 1: But that's kind of something Those are those decisions and
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  Speaker 1: those are those game time game plan decisions we have
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  Speaker 1: to make of what is best fit, how is our
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  Speaker 1: matchup for each week? Uh, but that's yeah, that's the
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  Speaker 1: sweet spot of it is what do we think is
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  Speaker 1: we're our best way to cover and to pin them deep?
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  Speaker 1: To pin them deep and then in the kickoff coverage
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  Speaker 1: group or a kickoff return group to to to get
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  Speaker 1: those short fields. How valuable was that value just for
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  Speaker 1: you to sort of get the sense.
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  Speaker 11: Of where deep is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's uh, it was super valuable.
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  Speaker 7: I think just in a lot of ways, you know,
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  Speaker 7: physically for our guys was recovering. And then for us
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  Speaker 7: to kind of collectively as a staff every year, that's
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  Speaker 7: a great opportunity to sit back and look at what
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  Speaker 7: you've been doing well, what you haven't been doing well,
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  Speaker 7: where you got to improve, and then where you can grow,
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  Speaker 7: like where you can add on from stuff that you're
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  Speaker 7: already doing.
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  Speaker 5: So it was really super valuable for us.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: I thought our coaches did a great job.
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  Speaker 7: Just coming back with the reports and you know, as
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  Speaker 7: a staff, for us to sit down and look at
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  Speaker 7: every little nuance of our system and where we can
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  Speaker 7: improve it was it was useful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I mean you always do without giving away a competitive advantage,
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  Speaker 7: what you definitely do you uh, you know, you look
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  Speaker 7: at where you got to improve. I always kind of
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  Speaker 7: lean toward that more than anything. You know, where do
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  Speaker 7: we have to improve? How can we improve there? And
• 12:28
  Speaker 7: I said a few times in here, like, because it's
• 12:31
  Speaker 7: a long season in this league, you really start to
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  Speaker 7: learn right about this time. I always say, you know,
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  Speaker 7: as you start to roll in through November, what your
• 12:39
  Speaker 7: team really does do well?
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  Speaker 5: And you know this is really when real football starts.
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  Speaker 6: With uh with followers come back Mentry. You look at
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  Speaker 6: his tape from early you're how impressive.
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  Speaker 7: Is Yeah, what we did with him also is we
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  Speaker 7: really did a deep dive even last year just watching him,
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  Speaker 7: he's an elite level player. He's really really explosive obviously
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  Speaker 7: for a guy at that position, but I think his
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  Speaker 7: acceleration after the catch is really impressive. So just top
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  Speaker 7: the bottom as a player, as a tight end, he
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  Speaker 7: really gives them a lot of Honestly, he's got a
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  Speaker 7: lot of skills that some guys at deposition don't have.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's an elite level player.
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  Speaker 10: A bunch of you missed Trayvon Walker being full in
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  Speaker 10: your defense and how long until you suppose.
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  Speaker 2: You have your back?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's He's gutted it out through.
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  Speaker 7: You know, Trey had a surgery there and played I
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  Speaker 7: think about as fast as you can get back from
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  Speaker 7: a surgery. He's a total team guy. And is trying
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  Speaker 7: to contribute as best he can. But I thought he
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  Speaker 7: had a really good week this week. You know, it
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  Speaker 7: looks a little bit different to me, you know, just
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  Speaker 7: kind of flying around and getting closer back to his
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  Speaker 7: normal self. So he had a really good practice yesterday,
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  Speaker 7: which you're excited about. So, like I said, appreciate everything
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  Speaker 7: he's done. He's given us great effort for all the
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  Speaker 7: reps that he's in there, but he's pounced back pretty quick.
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  Speaker 4: Oh as the rotation on the second hear to the town,
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  Speaker 4: the Eric and Murray banged up new somece new Buster
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  Speaker 4: Brown just got healthy traps out to rotating between offense
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  Speaker 4: and defense.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, anytime you have injuries, obviously in this league, it's
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  Speaker 7: gonna happen.
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  Speaker 5: That's always a challenge.
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  Speaker 7: But the guys have done a great job with UH
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  Speaker 7: with the rotation, you know, and then obviously great coming
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  Speaker 7: in UH two games ago, and he's done a good
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  Speaker 7: job stepping in and starting to learn the system and
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  Speaker 7: more and more, I think he's becoming more and more comfortable,
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  Speaker 7: you know, with the more opportunities he has out there
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  Speaker 7: in practice. And then like you said, with Buster being
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  Speaker 7: out throughout pretty much the entire camp and then coming back.
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  Speaker 7: I woun't want to say, look what week three really
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  Speaker 7: getting back rolling again. He's done a great job too.
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  Speaker 7: But it's a great atmosphere in that room. Those guys
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  Speaker 7: have a great collective spirit about pushing each other and
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  Speaker 7: you know, next man up.
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  Speaker 5: So it's been a lot of fun working with those guys.
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  Speaker 8: Sometimes that I guess the trust all in the field
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  Speaker 8: take a little bit more time since different pieces.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I wouldn't necessarily say that.
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  Speaker 7: I think just getting used to playing with each other
• 15:01
  Speaker 7: and communicating together, you know what I mean. I think
• 15:04
  Speaker 7: Eric is a really good communicator, and I think Antonio
• 15:07
  Speaker 7: Johnson has done a really good job stepping in when
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: he had to come in for Eric last week.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: I thought he did a really good job.
• 15:12
  Speaker 7: If you watch him in the game against the Rams,
• 15:15
  Speaker 7: he had a pretty good game for us, and he's
• 15:17
  Speaker 7: done a good job stepping in.
• 15:18
  Speaker 8: What stands out about Jen t and just the fact
• 15:21
  Speaker 8: that they're willing to put so much of their offense
• 15:23
  Speaker 8: on him.
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: As a rookiet. Yeah, he's a tough kid.
• 15:25
  Speaker 7: I mean he runs the ball hard as hell, you know,
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: and you watch him just he brings it running through
• 15:31
  Speaker 7: contact you know, he runs a great pad level and
• 15:33
  Speaker 7: I think he has really good contact balance. That's the
• 15:35
  Speaker 7: one thing that jumps out to me. It's really got
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: to be a team tackling mentality. You know, you got
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: to clamp the guy because you see guys sliding off him.
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: You can't just go throw in there and cut tackling.
• 15:45
  Speaker 7: It ain't gonna work against this guy. And he's had
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: a lot of runs where you look at him this
• 15:49
  Speaker 7: year and obviously through college, it's impressive. So I'm not
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: shocked that they put a you know, a load on him,
• 15:56
  Speaker 7: ask him to carry the load because he's a tough,
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: physical kid.
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: Clicked on third down two games to force three out
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: of twenty two.
• 16:02
  Speaker 7: I think anything a lot Like you were asking about
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: your self, scout and all that, and as the season
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: goes on, you're constantly looking at those things and what
• 16:11
  Speaker 7: are we good at, where can we take advantage of it?
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: I talked about I think the week before maybe when
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: we play Kansas City, we had a lot of third
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: and two situations in that game. There was maybe five
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: of them, I think third and two's and it being
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: really more third and defensively manageable situations is critical. So
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: winning first down, wanting to get back on track situations,
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: getting yourself to an advantageous position on third down, and competing.
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: I know we may not have had a ton of
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: production in terms of sacks and the rush, but guys
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: have gotten a bunch of hits on the quarterback and
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: I think that's changed some of the trajectory as some
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: of the throws on third down as well.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: So really just rushing coverage working together.
• 16:51
  Speaker 11: What has been a challenge with the sacks or is
• 16:53
  Speaker 11: other concern?
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't say it's a concern.
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: It's something you're always working at and part of what
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: we were looking at during turing the break. You know,
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: how we can get better there, how we can generate
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: more pressure. I think people have said, like we've had
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: a bunch of pressures. Yeah, that's great, But at the
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: end of the day, I agree. You want to get production,
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: you want to get sacks, want to get guys on
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: the ground, and that's really just working at it. I
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: think our guys are doing a really good job of
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: being aware of where we can get better with that.
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: You know, where we can finish getting a guy in
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: the grasp and finally, you know, getting them down on
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: the ground, So that's certainly a point of emphasis for
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: us and something we're working our ass off on.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: He's been doing a good job. Man, He's a physical dude.
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: I know I've said that about him before, but he
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: gives you a presence in there in the interior, you know,
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: in terms of especially in their early down run game.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: I think he's done a good job. And I thought
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: he did a pretty.
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: Good job overall in the past game and the early
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: down stuff the other day, made some open field tackles
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: that his break drive technique was pretty dang good when
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: the quarterback was taking his front of end.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: Off the ball and all that stuff.
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: So he showed up in a bunch of ways for us,
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: and I think he's continue to progress for us.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: So I think he's done a good job. Great.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: Cool, Yeah, I think we all do it in five.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I hope you guys did that.
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: Yeah, great, Just you know, how do you sort of
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: get the get the run game sort of going again.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Really goes back to the same things Liam's probably talked
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: about since the spring, and we've talked about since the spring.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: It's going to take all eleven and really more than that,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: because it's players and coaches included. So it's a commitment
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: to the way we practice, the way we prepare, the
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: way we gain plan, the way we approach our technique
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: and fundamentals. So it's going to take everybody, all position groups,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: all coaches to just commit to doing the things we
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: do at a high level. And then it's gonna take
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: us as coaches to try to find those things we
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: do best and focus more on those, and find new
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: and creative ways to do things that are similar, things
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: that fit within what we do well, and use those
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: on Sunday.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: The things you said about is not always money. Where
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: do you think they're at right now? To the last
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: couple of probably workt the offensive performances you wanted, but
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: as it's still been pretty that set of growth, that's
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: one disease.
• 19:06
  Speaker 11: I think in areas now.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: It didn't show in the last games of the last
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: two games from a final result or in total, but
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I think there are pieces that you can see from
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: certain individuals, certain groups, or at certain.
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: Times in the game of progress.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: And I think what we ultimately have to get to
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: is putting all those things together where you don't always
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: have time to wait for everything to piece together perfectly.
• 19:30
  Speaker 11: In some games, it's not going to all fit together perfectly.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Where it just so happens that a guy misses a
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: play on one play and another guy missed a play
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: on another player, we have put the guys in a
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: bad situation on one play, and it kind of adds
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: up to a negative result. But the more consistent we
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: can be in terms of when guys are on schedule
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: doing the things that they're supposed to be doing on
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: their assignments, on their tasks, on their technique and fundamentals,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: the more likely we are to be able to put
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: together positive drives, and then positive drives turn into positive games.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: So I do think that guys are making progress. I
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: think we need to continue to keep working it and
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: continue to make that progress and keep pushing it and
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: keep having a sense of urgency to get all eleven
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: playing well together at the same time, and that will
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: ultimately drive that result.
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: Of like Overully forces season, getting to know these guys
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: still where you figure out this guy Audio is really
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: good at something that we found out he's actually really
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: good at this shift rolls a.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Little, absolutely, absolutely, and I think we're moving closer and
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: closer to that even over the course of the spring,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: things change and evolve because you're finding out what routes
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: are guy's good at, what blocks a certain offensive lineman
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: is good at. And then you get into the games
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: and you get more live action, full speed reps against
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: different competition, against different schemes, and you find out what
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: our guys are good at, what schemes, our guys are
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: good at, what formations, personnel groups, shifts, motions, all of
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: those things. And the more we do of that, the
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: more these guys grow together learning how to play together,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: so they get better playing together, and we get better
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: at game planning for them. So there's a whole bunch
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: of things that hopefully we continue to improve if we
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: all learn, continue to learn each other and learn what
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: we're all good at.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: Heiy grant you guys get into this professional coach guys
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: and help them improve. How have you found that spot
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: as a coordinator where if that's your role, but you're
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: also still able to get on the grass and help guys.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question because that's certainly been a
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: learning process for me, and I'm sure everybody goes through
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: the same thing where you're so used to working on
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: the day to day with just one position group or
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: one specific player or one group of guys, and you
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: kind of get into the routine of just working with
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: those guys every day and Tuesday I do this, and
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Wednesday I do this, and Thursday I do this. But
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: taking this role and having to work with different guys
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: at different times based on what's need and having to
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: adapt to the different situations something that I've continued to
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: try to evolve over the course of the year, and
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: being flexible and adaptable, like I said, to be able
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: to help whoever needs it, wherever I'm needed, where I'm
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: most useful.
• 21:52
  Speaker 11: It's been a lot of.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Fun being able to get to work with the different guys,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: though in a more expanded capacity, where previously you may
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: only work with the offensive line in small, small situations, like,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: for example, if you're working with quarterbacks, you might only
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: work with the offensive line where you're talking about protections,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: but you don't really get to talking about the run
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: game that much. It's been a lot of fun to
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: be able to talk to each group about all different
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: phases of the offensive game. So I've loved that element
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: of it. You lose a little bit of the one
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: on one or individual time that you love, But what
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: you get back the ability to work with truly everybody
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: across the offense. What stood out to you about Travis
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: or his performance on off Well, the great part about
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: it was you see, first and foremost the effort and
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: the resiliency. We're down, things aren't going well for the team,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: and he's in there still playing as hard as he
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: can doing his job, competing, attacking the ball, attacking the
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: run game, attack in the pass game. So that's first
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: and foremost what stands out for you, and we appreciate that,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: and that's really who we want to be as an
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: offense from that identity standpoint of the way we play
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: the game. Then you see his ability to make plays,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: make things happen after the catch, has a great understanding
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: of space and defense and where guys are around him,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: can make guys, can find lanes to run, can find
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: lanes to get open in the past game. And then
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: his ability to make plays on the ball. When you
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: throw the ball and put the ball in the air,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: you feel great about his ability to track it, go
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: up and get the ball and then make something happen
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: after the Fatcason, It's still he's still working hard with
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: those guys out there. It's been good to see him
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: continue to progress and get some opportunities here in that
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: practice to go in there with that group. I think
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: that one of the big things for him coming back
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: is being a rookie already there is a learning curve
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: not only of the offense, but learning to play with
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: the guys around you. Offensive line is such a codependent
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: position where you need to be able to work with.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: If I'm at guard, the tackle, if I'm at tackle
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: the guard, if I'm at center, I'm working basically with everybody.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: So him learning the way those guys communicate, those guys work,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: the way they take their footworker, they take their past
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: sets is such a huge part of his progress, and
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I think as we are able to continue to get
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: him back, that will continue to grow and grow, and
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: that will help his ability to grow not only as
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: a player, but with this unit or this group, this
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: offensive line group, specifically.
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: An individual player like Max Crosby sort of alter how
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: he a game A ton a ton He's a guy
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: I probably have said this for probably one or two
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: players each week, but he's another guy who can impact
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: every single play.
• 24:14
  Speaker 11: He's all over the field. You see the effort.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: You see him in the past game effect in the
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: quarterback or affecting the ball, tipping up, and he's i
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: mean making plays on the ball. You see him in
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: the run game, plays blocks in a bunch of different
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: ways and has a great way of finding his way
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: to the ball. He's never out of the play. So
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: he's a guy that likes some of these other guys.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Even though he might be on one side on one play,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: on another side on another places to one side, you
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: have to really account for him across the entire offensive
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: play because even if he's on the left, he could
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: be making plays on the right. He's on the right,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: he's making plays on the left. So his effort, his range,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: and his ability make it make it a challenge to
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: attack a faster start. Well, I think, like like we
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: talked about the run game, it starts with how we
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: prepare and how we practice.
• 24:58
  Speaker 11: And making sure that we things that we feel really.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Confident and really good about, and then putting those together
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: in a sequence where we're able to go out there
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: and execute and stay on track. I'm sure Liam talked
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: about it a little bit, where the results of the
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: offense when we're off schedule and is it's first and
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: twenty make it a real challenge on the play caller
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: to find something to go to at that point and
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: to stick with whatever plan you may have set out.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: You try to prepare for everything, but if you have
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: repeated penalties or repeated negative plays, it makes it much
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: more difficult to stick to that plan. So if we're
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: able to execute those things early at a high level,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I think that will pay dividends throughout not only that drive,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: but throughout the rest of the game, because you're able
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: to set up sequences of plays, sequences of drives, and
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: different things that you want to get to that you
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: might not get to when you're always behind the changes
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: or off schedule.
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: There's certain guys that you also learned what payed early
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: in the game to help and get going earlier.
• 25:50
  Speaker 11: I think so.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I think that that's always part of the process on
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: figuring out what guys do well earlier. Excuse me, what
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: guys really need early to do well through the rest
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: of the game. I suppose what I'm trying to say,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: like you're saying, certain guys get into certain situations and
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: they feel really comfortable with certain schemes or certain alignments
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: or certain spots on the field, and if you can
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: get them into that, that gets guys into a rhythm.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: As much as people like to say, you know, there's
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: not really such a thing as getting into the zone
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: or getting into you know, certain feeling like they're in
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: that state where like they can't miss. We want to
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: get them into that true flow as much as possible.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: So what's the way to get that. It's it's getting
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: them do something they do well, getting them to do
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: something they're comfortable with or have confidence that they're gonna
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: be able to go out there and execute correctly.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Thanks